Mi — your migraine companion in Mystic Garden
✦ Real-time Prodrome Alerts Beta Biomarker monitoring · Phenotype profiling · Narrative therapy

MIgraine Companion

Predict your migraine hours before pain.
Stay gentle while doing it.

The first consumer app combining Apple Watch biomarker monitoring with biochemical phenotype profiling. 9 biomarkers tracked in real time. 5 phenotype profiles personalize predictions to your unique pharmacogenomic makeup. Narrative therapy treats migraine as your companion, not your enemy.

Download on theApp Store
Get it onGoogle Play

Apple Watch Series 8+ required for prodrome alerts
All other features work on iPhone alone · Android coming 2026

5
Phenotype
Profiles
22
Personal
Subtypes
12-24h
Vulnerable
Warning
1-6h
Alert
Window

In the Mystic Garden, Mi waits for you.
Not to track. Not to judge.
Just to understand.

✦ Inside the App

Discover Mi's Garden

Meet Mi. Decode yourself. Watch the system learn you.
Find calm whenever you need.

Step 1 Mi's Garden, Care Tools, and Mi Watch setup on Home screen

Meet Mi

Mi's Garden, Care Tools, and Mi Watch setup live on Home.

Step 2 MI Lab Caffeine Science with 5 phenotype profiles

Decode yourself

MI Lab with 5 profiles and tools inside each one.

Step 3 Mi Watch learning state — Mi is recognizing your patterns

Mi Watch learns you

Mi Watch quietly forms your unique migraine pattern.

Step 4 Mi Watch Vulnerable state — Storm gathering, 12-24h ahead

Mi Watch alerts you

Vulnerable warning opens 12-24h before pain hits.

Always Breathing Garden — 4-7-8 vagus breathing technique

Breathing Garden

4-7-8 vagus breathing. Mi's gentle companion during attacks.

Always Migraine Monster therapeutic game with 21 achievements

Migraine Monster

Gamified self-care with 21 achievements.

↗Scroll past Step 4 to find Breathing Garden and Migraine Monster — Mi's gentle companions for when attacks come.

How Mi Works

A gentle journey from pain to understanding — in three steps.

1
🌱

Meet Mi

Mi is your migraine, externalized. Not a monster to fight — a companion to understand. Give your pain a name, and it becomes something you can relate to.

2
📝

Track & Care

Log your meals, sleep, stress, weather. Every act of self-care is visible. Mi notices everything — and learns your unique patterns.

3
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Mi Responds

When you care for yourself, Mi calms down. When you struggle, Mi struggles with you. You're not alone anymore. Together.

"The problem is the problem.
The person is not the problem."
— Michael White, co-founder of narrative therapy

What Makes Us Different

Most migraine apps are digital diaries. MIgraine Companion takes a fundamentally different approach — one rooted in narrative therapy.

🌙 Externalization

Mi represents your migraine as something separate from you. You're not "a migraine sufferer" — you're a person who lives with Mi. This reduces self-blame and increases your sense of control.

💜 Companionization

Instead of fighting your migraine, you learn to understand it. Mi is not a villain to defeat. When you struggle, Mi struggles too. You're companions, not adversaries.

✨ Your Actions Matter

Every action has a visible effect. Drink water — Mi calms down. Rest — Mi relaxes. Skip a meal — Mi grows restless. You see the direct connection between self-care and your condition.

💫 Sparkling Moments

Your calm days aren't just statistics — they're proof that you can manage this. Each peaceful day is a "sparkling moment," evidence that the problem doesn't always win.

🛏️ Crisis Support

When migraine strikes, Mi doesn't demand anything. Mi sleeps beside you, sends gentle reminders, asks how you're feeling. The app becomes comfort, not pressure.

Based on narrative therapy developed by Michael White and David Epston — a scientifically validated approach used for chronic pain, depression, and anxiety for over 40 years. You don't need a therapist to benefit. Mi is with you, in your pocket, ready whenever you need.

Mi whispers: "I see the storm coming.
Let's prepare together."

✦ The Breakthrough

The Prodrome Window

Hours before pain hits, your body whispers.
Mi Watch listens.

Mi Watch reads 9 biomarkers from your Apple Watch — HRV, heart rate, resting HR, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, sleep stages, sleep duration, activity. First, it learns your baseline — what's normal for YOUR body. Then, with each migraine you log, Mi Watch learns how your body shifts before pain hits — your unique migraine signature. The pattern starts forming after 5 logged migraines; accuracy sharpens dramatically after 15+. When that signature emerges again, the Prodrome Window opens.

24h ahead Pain
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Phase 1

Vulnerable Warning

12–24h ahead

Body is at higher risk. Time to prepare — hydrate, regulate sleep, lower stress.

Phase 2

Golden Window

1–6h before pain

Choose your defense. Your prescribed treatment works strongest now.

Mi Watch Vulnerable state — Storm gathering 12-24h ahead
🔄 Beta — Honest by Design

Mi Watch tells you its confidence at every stage — Learning, Calibrating, or Reliable. The signature starts forming at 5 logged migraines; predictions become reliable after 15+.

Mi Watch Learning state — Mi is recognizing your patterns
While Mi Watch learns · You get value from day one
  • All 5 phenotype profiles work immediately — no waiting period
  • Your Constellation personalizes Ask Mi advisor from your first profile
  • Mi Watch shows what it's learning — transparent Learning state, no hidden warmup
  • Care Tools, Migraine Manifesto, Breathing Garden available throughout

Apple Watch + iOS · Android coming 2026

✦ Two Signatures, One Alert

How Mi Knows You

Two different fingerprints work in parallel.
They meet at the moment of alert.

Path 1 · Static · From genetics

Your Biochemical Fingerprint

Decoded from quizzes about how your body reacts to substances. Answers WHAT triggers you.

Path 2 · Dynamic · From your body

Your Migraine Signature

Learned by Mi Watch from your real migraine attacks. Answers WHEN to warn you.

Step 1 · 5 Profiles

Decode biochemistry

CYP1A2, ALDH2, MAO, glucose response, sensory thresholds.

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Step 2 · Constellation

Synthesize biochemistry

Cross-profile patterns: how your phenotypes stack and interact.

Step 1 · Apple Watch baseline

Learn your baseline

9 biomarkers tracked: HRV, resting HR, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature, sleep stages, more.

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Step 2 · 5+ migraines · 15+ for accuracy

Form migraine signature

Mi Watch sees what shifts in your body before each migraine. The pattern sharpens with every logged attack.

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✦ Step 3 · Combined · Your Prodrome Alert

Together, more accurate than either alone

Mi Watch decides WHEN based on your migraine signature.
Your Constellation shapes WHAT Mi suggests — drawn from your phenotype profiles.

Profiles also feed Mi Watch context — making the prodrome prediction sharper than biomarkers alone could give.

✦ See it in action

Mi Doesn't Send Generic Advice

Every notification draws from both signatures. Real example below:

🌙
Urgent
Mi Watch senses early migraine signals
HRV shift · Resting HR shift · 12-24h ahead
⚡ Vulnerable · 12-24h ahead

Storm gathering

Mi Watch recognized your prodrome pattern from past migraines.

What you can do now

💧
Hydrate intentionally
Big glass now, then sip every hour
🌙
Rest if you can
Even 20 min lying down helps
☕
Skip caffeine after 2pm
↳ From your Speed Marathon profile
🧀
Skip aged cheese, cured meat
↳ Tyramine Reactor profile

↑ The alert timing came from Mi Watch reading your body. The Speed Marathon caffeine type and Tyramine Reactor actions came from your Constellation. Two signatures, one personalized alert.

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The 13 tools, briefly

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Caffeine — 3
Coffee Shop Card · What's in My Cup · Gentle Exit
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Alcohol — 3
What Can I Drink · My Drink Card · Pre-Event Protocol
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Amine — 2
Food Card · Reintroduction Plan
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Energy — 2
Crash Predictor · Glucose Rescue
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Sensory — 2
Should I Go? · What's Happening?
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Growing
More tools per profile in 2026
✦ Validating in 2026

The Science Behind Mi

Beta cohort study running June–December 2026.
Honest by design — results targeting peer-reviewed publication.

Study Period
6 months
June–December 2026, prospective observational cohort
Target Cohort
15–50 testers
Apple Watch Series 8+, episodic migraine 4–14 per month
Target Journals
Peer-reviewed
Cephalalgia, Neurology, or Journal of Medical Internet Research

Honest framing: Mi is BETA. Per-user prediction accuracy targets 70% (consumer wearable standard), with the system adapting its thresholds based on your real outcomes. Validation study results will be published openly — including limitations, confounders, and what we got wrong.

✦ Who Mi Watch Is For

Mi Watch · Built for Episodic Migraine

Mi Watch's prediction works best for 3–14 attacks per month.
The rest of Mi works for everyone, regardless of frequency.

Best fit · Primary design target

Episodic Migraine

3–14 attacks per month

Mi Watch's four-layer personalization works best for episodic migraine — enough attacks to learn your signature, enough recovery between attacks to establish a clean baseline. This is what Mi was designed for.

Full prodrome prediction · 12-24h vulnerable + 1-6h alert
Four-layer personalization fully active
Adaptive threshold calibration · learns your accuracy
Phenotype priors personalize every alert
Clinical complement · Not a replacement

Chronic Migraine

15+ attacks per month

Mi Watch's prediction is less precise with chronic patterns — overlapping prodrome and recovery windows challenge baseline detection. Mi still helps in important ways alongside specialist care from a headache neurologist.

Medication limit tracking · prevents MOH
CGRP therapy effectiveness monitoring
Pattern documentation for your neurologist
Mi Lab phenotype profiles work fully
For everyone · Always active

Universal safety tracking

Regardless of attack frequency, these features work for every user — built into Mi from day one.

💊
MOH Prevention

Medication limit tracking prevents medication overuse headache — the most common but invisible trap for frequent users (triptans >10 days/month, gepants >15 days/month).

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CGRP Effectiveness

Before/after tracking for CGRP therapy (Aimovig, Ajovy, Emgality, Vyepti, Ubrelvy, Nurtec) — see what's actually working, share the data with your neurologist.

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Specialist Support

Mi is not a replacement for medical care. If you have 15+ attacks per month, please work with a headache specialist — Mi complements, never replaces.

✦ The Personalization Engine

MI Lab

Decode your biochemistry.
Build your Constellation.

Five science-backed profiles decode your unique biochemistry. Each one is free, instant, and grounded in peer-reviewed research. Together, they answer one question — what triggers you. That answer shapes every action Mi suggests.

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Profile 01

Caffeine

CYP1A2 metabolism

Find your personal coffee deadline. 4 metabolizer types.

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Profile 02

Alcohol

ALDH2 · histamine · quercetin

4 reactor types. Leiden University research, n=2,197.

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Profile 03

Amine

MAO · TAAR1 · DAO function

Tyramine and histamine reactivity. 4 types + safety screening.

⚡
Profile 04

Energy Crash

Reactive hypoglycemia

Hidden glucose-driven trigger. 5 metabolic phenotypes.

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Profile 05

Sensory

Cortical · vestibular thresholds

Light, sound, smell, motion, weather. 5 types.

✦ Premium · After all 5 profiles

Your Migraine Constellation

Complete all 5 profiles and Mi reveals the cross-system patterns no single profile can show — how your phenotypes stack, how your triggers interact, the rare combinations that are uniquely you. Your Constellation is the biochemical fingerprint that personalizes every recommendation, every notification action, every Ask Mi answer.

● 14 detectable patterns
● Clinical PDF export
● Personalizes every alert

Where others see charts, Mi sees your story.
Where others count attacks, Mi counts peaceful days.

✦ Everything Else Mi Offers

More Than Predictions

Everything you need between attacks,
during them, and after.

🕊

Effortless tracking

Log migraines, food, sleep, stress, weather — with minimal effort. Mi finds the patterns.

●Smart food parsing
●Visual calendars + heatmaps
●Auto-detect timing patterns
🎙

Migraine Manifesto

Explaining migraine during an attack is impossible. Let the Manifesto do it for you.

●7 pre-written shareable cards
●Partner, work, parents, friends
●Editable + unlimited custom cards
🤖

Ask Mi — AI advisor

Your personal migraine advisor — knows your Constellation, answers in YOUR context, not generic tips.

●Trained on 103 peer-reviewed articles
●Uses your phenotype profiles
●3 free questions · $2.99/30 days
🌸

In-attack support

Dark interface, one-handed in the dark. Therapeutic distraction without demands or guilt.

●Urgent Care + 4-7-8 breathing
●Mi's Garden + Breathing Garden
●Migraine Monster — 21 achievements
📋

Clinical-grade exports

Professional reports your neurologist actually wants. Designed with clinical workflows in mind.

●Medication safety alerts
●CGRP therapy tracking
●Auto-fill MIDAS assessment
🔒

Your data is yours

Zero ads. We never sell your health data. App works offline by default — cloud features opt-in only.

●No advertising, ever
●Health data never sold
●Built by a migraineur, for migraineurs

Built from 30 Years of Living with Migraine

A letter from the creator

I've lived with migraines for 30 years. I built MIgraine Companion not as a developer — but as someone who needed it to exist.

This app was created in Ukraine during wartime, often with only 8 hours of electricity per day. Sometimes less. In those dark hours — both literal and metaphorical — I worked on something that would bring light to others who live with chronic pain.

🌙 Personal Experience

30 years living with chronic migraine. Reduced attacks from 15-20 per month to 3-4 using the same therapeutic approach built into this app.

📚 Evidence-Based

Built on narrative therapy principles by Michael White & David Epston. Uses WHO medication guidelines and medical research on migraine triggers.

✨ Transparency

Rustam is not a medical doctor. This app is a self-help tool based on personal experience and research — it supplements, not replaces, professional medical care.

💜 Built in Wartime

Developed in Ukraine during 2024-2026. Often working through 10-16 hour power outages. Created with hope that understanding can help others.

I didn't know I was building a narrative therapy tool. I was building what I wished existed — something that would make me feel less alone, less defined by my condition, more in control.

Mi isn't just a cute character. Mi is how I learned to live with my migraine — not as an enemy to fight, but as a companion to understand.

If you're reading this, you probably know what it's like. The invisible pain. The canceled plans. The fear of the next attack. I see you. Mi sees you too.

Rustam Iuldashov

Rustam Iuldashov

Creator & Developer

30 years living with migraine. Built what I wished existed.
Marina Mochalova

Marina Mochalova

Designer

She made Mi feel like home.

Medical Disclaimer: Migraine Companion is a self-help tool, not medical advice. Always consult your doctor before making changes to medication or treatment. In case of emergency symptoms, seek immediate medical attention. Read full disclaimer

Begin Your Journey with Mi

Not just tracking migraines. Predicting them — and learning to live with them.

Download on theApp Store
Get it onGoogle Play

Apple Watch Series 8+ required for prodrome alerts · All other features work on iPhone alone